Ukraine said it took a Russian position using just drones and ground robots.
Zelenskyy said it was a wartime first, and no Ukrainian infantry was involved.
He said robots have done over 22,000 missions in three months, keeping many soldiers from harm.
Begun, the drone wars have
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If it makes you feel any better, these are all being remote controlled.
So while you’re off from your day job of piloting the robot that hunts down dissident Filipinos, some Filipino operator is driving the drone that bombs your car for its “Impeach President Newsom” bumper sticker.
Something Something Just Like Communist China.
As always, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
things are going to get really weird
Good intentions and human skulls.
Haha first thing I thought of reading that headline,shit we’re going terminator. Well one day they’ll realize they don’t need us I assume. Just have to blot out the sun to go Matrix…
So many exciting possibilities!!! NGL, I was hoping they’d bring dinosaurs back before the machines killed us. Maybe the Matrix will decide to incorporate them. I can live with that.
You want to live with fucking dinosaurs?? Didn’t you watch that movie?
Yeah. But I was a kid in the 80s so I’m also partial to this scenario:
Lmao, that was before my time. That’s badass.
Looks more like that road is paved with Russian corpses.
The age of drone on drone violence will make war more palatable to citizens.
Until the drones start getting used on civilians. Which is absolutely going to happen and soon.
It’s been happening for ages already. What reality do you people live in?
“Whaddya mean, ‘you people’?”
It’s been happening for a good 20 years already. Do you think US drone strikes were all military targets? Do you think both russia and ukraine didn’t absolutely dronefuck multiple population centers? Do you think israel didn’t use drones to carry out its genocides? There are probably tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of dead civilians due to drone strikes already.
You’re not wrong but I was specifically referencing the ground based drones with my comment. Apologies that wasn’t clear.
Ah yeah, that makes sense. But I feel like it may be a bit easier to run away from a ground-based drone than it is from an aerial one. For one, they’re much slower so you’d probably have a more advanced warning.
We should probably secure rights to EMPs for self defense.
The thing I fear is that this just becomes a ridiculously futile war of resource attrition. It all comes down to who has more metals and chips and armaments to keep throwing at the other’s pools of the same until one gives up. What a waste…
…But then again, writing this, I realize that’s almost already how they treat human soldiers so…what will change, I wonder?
Exactly. We’re already there with which side has more human resources. Meanwhile asymmetric warfare is an escalation of technology and the resources to produce them. Sure, you can tip the balance of power on the battlefield with very clever use of resources, but it’s ultimately a contest of who is willing to dump the most into the conflict.
It could also be argued that technological warfare in a global economy makes resource blockades even more important. Nobody is 100% reliant on their homeland resources anymore. To effectively siege your opponent, you have to cut off everything that can fuel their ability to make war. That can be a huge perimeter in some cases.
What will change?
It’s easier to convince young people to hump soldiers into their partners than it is to create more rare earth elements.
I really, honestly hope you are right. Sadly, I think you are wrong. I’ve recently been exposed to the concepts of “human safari” and “drone siege” and they aren’t pretty. “Drone on drone” might be just the preamble of these.
No preamble, unfortunately. The Russians are doing these “human safaris”, which are, of course, clear as day war crimes, to train their drone pilots.
Also to terrorize and wear out the civilian population of course, which is the Russian way of war.
AI drones are coming along, but these won’t only be used on other drones or robots, that much we can know already.
Indeed, I meant that in a hypothetical “drone vs drone” war, after the drones win the attacks on civilians and sieges will most likely come after.
I do not mean it will be tolerable to be near. I mean citizens of nations who choose war will tolerate it more if their own soldiers are not dying in war. If war requires less people and more “stuff” to wage, citizens will feel less motivation to speak out against it. It will make waging war more of an option not less of one, if only equipment is being lost.
How long until inter-country conflicts are settled by robot battles and we’re basically living the plot of Robo Jox?
As hard as that shit goes, we will probably never see an age of human piloted robots.
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You are not in the sudoers file, this incident will be reported
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Well, the future looks bright enough. We may work to death in captailist states, but at least robots will fight each other, so no need for soldiers.
Robots will fight each other over the burnt remnants of our homes.
…until one of the warring countries runs out of robots anyway. That’s when the real fun starts!
robots will fight each other, so no need for soldiers.
Ukrainian remote operators are killing Russian soldiers today.
In another few weeks, a Russian advance will take territory containing Ukrainian operators. At which point, well…
This can fill the void that Battlebots’ cancellation left behind.
Wait, I’m on the side of the robots for this one?
One small step for man, one giant warning siren for mankind.
Yeah… I really don’t like the changes that the Russian Invasion of Ukraine are making to war.
Cheap Kamikaze drones, unmanned roving gun turrets, etc etc… Removing men on the ground feels like its gonna make it easier to pursue and lust for wars as these technologies continue to advance further and remove the human components.
well said. No boots on the ground doesn’t seem to mean less wars, just more wars with less boots on ground.
Yep.
it doesnt mean less wars.
It just means more innocent/civilian suffering.
What happens when it’s an occupying force? i.e. mainly around civilians.
It’s going to be a special kind of hell.
It’s also a pretty big step for man.
Western Infantry officers will be in shambles if this could be repeated again and again. It has to be tough killing one UGV while quad copters are overhead let alone dozens of them rolling up.
Nah, infantry officers would be over the moon if they didn’t have to throw bodies at fortified positions anymore and could just be tasked with holding the AO that the drones assaulted.
Russian soldiers have been recorded surrendering to both aerial drones and ground robots in this war, including by writing messages of surrender that they presented to the operator via the onboard camera and surrendering after notes telling them to do so were dropped by drones.
Surrendering to a machine sounds humiliating but still a better option than going back to the Russian military.
May there be mercy on man and machine for their sins…
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So… we got two ways to go. One the robot on robot wars end up wiping us all out by exhausting all or resources and of course killing civilians. Or we take to space and have the robot wars stay on earth. Mars at least I figure. For a few at least.
Or… send the robots to mars to fight…
Or Geonosis
Yeah, but the resources they want to fight over are on earth… for now. Humans will just have to keeping moving to stay out of the robots way.
I think I’ve seen this somewhere ….
